February 8,
2001-Dearborn, MI- In 1981 the computer industry was changing. A little company
in Cupertino, CA, had already made a greater move toward personalizing computer
technology than any other that came before. That company was, of course, Apple
Computer, Inc.; the industry leader that grew out of the fabled garage.

Things
were poised to change again. Behind closed doors in Cupertino, an engineering
team was gathered to revolutionize computing and bring a new level of usability
to light.

Rarely has
a significant portion of the original Macintosh team come together to reminisce
and to look ahead. MacHack is pleased to announce a keynote as much about making
history as it is about history, a keynote panel from the halls of Cupertino:

Andy
Hertzfeld

Andy was a graduate student at UC Berkeley in January 1978
when he purchased an Apple II personal computer, and it changed his life. He
went to work for Apple Computer in August 1979, creating peripherals and system
software for the Apple II. He became a member of the original Macintosh team in
February 1981 and designed and implemented a large fraction of the original
Macintosh system software, including the User Interface Toolbox.

After
leaving Apple in March 1984, Andy worked independently, designing the software
for several Macintosh products, including ThunderScan, Switcher and the Radius
Full Page Display. In May 1990, Andy co-founded General Magic, where he was the
lead developer of the innovative Magic Cap platform for personal intelligent
communicators. Andy is passionate about writing ground-breaking software that
makes computers easy and fun to use and hopes to continue doing so at Eazel.

Guy
“Bud” Tribble

Bud
is one of the industry's noted experts in object-oriented programming and
user-interface design. Prior to joining Eazel, he was VP and chief technology
officer for the Sun-Netscape Alliance, responsible for guiding Internet and
e-commerce software R&D. He held several VP-level positions at Sun during
the past seven years. Bud began his career at Apple Computer, where in 1981, he
was manager of the original Macintosh Software team, helping design the MacOS
and user interface. In 1985, he helped found NeXT Computer, where he was VP of
Software Engineering and a key architect of the NeXtstep operating system, a
groundbreaking software environment.

Bud
earned a B.A. degree in biophysics from the University of California, San
Diego, and an M.D. and Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University of
Washington.

Caroline
Rose

Caroline
Rose worked for Apple Computer in two stints totaling nearly 10

years.
She edited and wrote most of the first three volumes of Inside

Macintosh,
and five years later (after managing the Publications group

at
NeXT) she returned to become the editor of develop, Apple's technical

journal
for Mac developers. Caroline now enjoys working as a freelance

writer
and editor; for more information, see her website <http://www.differnet.com/crose>.

This trio
of speakers is empanelled not just as a retrospective on the Macintosh as we
knew it, but to look forward and share their visions of the future of computing
from Macintosh to MacOS X; from the Toolbox to Eazel’s Nautilus and
everything in between.

MacHack
2001 will take place June 21-23, 2001, in Dearborn, Michigan. This unprecedented
keynote panel will convene at the traditional 12:01 AM on June 21 to kick off
the 72-hour marathon conference. More information is available on the Web from
<http://www.machack.com/>.

For
attendees, discounted registration is available for early response. Full
attendees can register for $425 online, a savings of $100 of the regular
registration rate, students can register for $50 which includes all-access to
the conference as well as a special meal package. Total attendance is limited
to 400. Student attendance is limited to 50. More details are available on the
conference website.

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